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Your ultimate companion for gardening success!

This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about planning, planting, nurturing, and harvesting a thriving vegetable garden. Featuring profiles of over 80 vegetable varieties—including perpetual spinach, potatoes, tomatoes, shallots, snow peas, radicchio, and artichokes—this book is an essential resource for gardeners of all skill levels.

Learn how to prevent and manage pests and diseases, from aphids and blight to gray mold, caterpillars, flea beetles, leaf miners, powdery mildew, whiteflies, rust, and more. With a focus on organic gardening methods, you’ll discover essential techniques such as raised bed gardening, composting, soil treatments, plant care, and garden projects to enhance your growing space.

A must-have reference for every gardener, **Ultimate Guide to Planting & Growing Vegetables at Home** provides step-by-step guidance on starting your garden, selecting the right vegetables, sowing, growing, and harvesting. Whether you’re working with raised beds, small spaces, vertical gardens, or containers, this book offers indispensable knowledge to help you achieve a productive harvest.

Written by the experts at Creative Homeowner, this guide includes insights on choosing the perfect garden location, boosting plant growth, protecting crops, and maintaining soil health. With detailed profiles of 32 plants and 91 vegetable varieties—including potatoes, carrots, Jerusalem artichokes, lettuce, Swiss chard, broccoli, asparagus, beetroot, radishes, cucumbers, zucchini, winter squash, sweet corn, peas, and runner beans—you’ll have all the information you need for a bountiful garden.

Packed with beautiful full-color photos and expert advice, **Ultimate Guide to Planting & Growing Vegetables at Home** makes gardening simple, rewarding, and enjoyable!